ENGLISH NEWS.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5459, 13 August 1879, Page 3

ENGLISH NEWS.

[Per Tararua at Bluff.] It is understood that the Prince of Wales will not visit tho Sydney Exhibition, but it is not unlikely that Prince Leopold will do so. Earl Derby, addressing tho Lancashire Farmers' Club on the relations, of landlord and tenant, recommended farmers to keep down their numbers by immigration to America or Australia, where there was room enough for them and their sons for centuries to come. Sir Arthur Gordon was presented with a farewell address by the Aborigines' Protection Society, expressing approval of his Fiji policy. Reports having been circulated in Victoria that Mr Gladstone and the other leaders of the Liberal . party viewed with favor Mr Berry's recent mission, and sympathised with the objects he had in view, Mr Gladstone has publicly stated that Mr Berry had no conversation of a political nature with him, but he does not doubt that he thinks the deliberate judgment of the greater number will ultimately prevail. He continued : — I do not know how ultimately it may be arranged, but I think it is eminently desirable that the matter should be amicably settled on the spot and without resort to us. The Union Co's new steamer Rotomahana has fjbeen launched from the building yards of Denny Bros., Dumbarton. She is about 1800 tons measurement, and is described as being entirely steel, with compound direct acting engines of 500 horsepower nominal. Mr W. H. Smith, First Lord of the Admiralty, at a Conservative banquet, stated that when peaoe was established in South Africa the colonists would have to take upon themselves the duty of protecting themselves against the savage tribes on their boundaries. Carlotta Patti has accpted a year's engagement in Australia, at the termination of which she retires from the stage. The total war expenditure at the Cape to June 30 was £1,222,000.